BBC’s traffic from LinkedIn increased by ten times between January and June,reportsJournalism.co.uk. In January, referrals from the social network amounted to around 20,000 each month, and by June this figure rocketed to over 200,000. But, it seems, other social networks are driving even more traffic. A spokesperson said: “Referrals from LinkedIn have increased rapidly over the past few months, but they’re nowhere near the level of referrals we get from Twitter....

Updates at the foot of the post. Yesterday something very unexpected happened; all of the BBC’s web empirewent down, leaving its News, Sports and popular iPlayer websites completely inaccessible. With unconfirmed reports of an attack by the online collective Anonymous, BBC staff and reporters immediately took to Twitter to broadcast what had occurred on the website, live-tweeting any updates they received from BBC engineers. It quickly emerged that there were network issues, although at the time the specific causes were unknown....

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of BBC, is set to offer a series of digitally-remasteredDoctor Whostories to rent on Facebook. UsingFacebook credits, fans of the sci-fi TV series can visit the officialDoctor Who Facebookpage, where they can stream a selection of nine stories, each containing several episodes, from the history of theTime Lord, including digitally remastered classics such asTomb of the Cybermen, as well as more modern stories. Facebook will also attract an exclusive, with BBC Worldwide streamingThe Greatest Show in the Galaxy, a serial that ran for four weeks in the late 80s, and which has never been released on DVD....

With the sharing and distribution of news shifting increasingly more to the online arena, and publications such as the Huffington Post, the Mail Online and Guardian actively seeking inroads into providing news for global readerships, BBC has made a very timelyannouncement. The international version of BBC’s website,BBC.com, was launched as a commercial entity in 2007. And it transpires that the business has reached profitability two-years ahead of schedule, with sales growing by 83% in the past year across the board, and by 113% in the US alone....

While the BBC might beshutting down websites, it seems that we know where the priority has been shifted. The BBC’s Geoff Marshall has just stated, in aTweet, that the iPlayer app for the iPad will be available this Thursday, February 10th. As luck would have it, this falls in line with whatwe calledhere on TNW only a few weeks ago. There is no confirmation, yet, as to whether the app will be available or work outside of the UK....